Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
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I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.
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You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
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I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
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Every casting director I've met is a woman.
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It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The European Union remains a staunch supporter of the ICC and is committed to full co-operation on the prevention of serious crimes falling under the jurisdiction of the Court.
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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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Here I stand, I'm your man.
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I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our country - energy and malaise.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Seriously, I grew up a fan of Hulk Hogan, and I think I bring some of his best values to the ring... the values of a superhero. Always do your best. Never give up... I think kids want to believe in that, and they should believe in that.
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I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.
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Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.
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It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
